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Read This Story and Get Happier

By Adam Sternbergh

The most popular course at Yale teaches how to be happy. We took it for you.

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Balancing Self-Care and Social Activism

It’s important to keep up with self-care for long-term, sustainable social activism.

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Israa Nasir
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Ask the Teachers: Is Happiness Really the Central Goal of Buddhist Practice?

Question: Buddhist teachers, including the Dalai Lama, often speak of happiness as a goal (if not the goal) of Buddhist practice. I don’t begrudge anyone happiness, but making it so central to spiritual life feels self-serving. Am I misunderstanding what’s meant by “happiness”?

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Anushka Fernandopulle, Thubten Chodron, Kaira Jewel Lingo
2020
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Lasting Happiness

It’s surprisingly easy to achieve lasting happiness — we just have to understand our own basic nature. The hard part, says Mingyur Rinpoche, is getting over our bad habit of seeking happiness in transient experiences.

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
2012
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Waking Up to Happiness

Sneezing, coughing, blowing her nose—Natalie Goldberg was awfully sick yet she was happy. Happiness is available to everyone, she realized, but we can find it only when we’re still.

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Natalie Goldberg
2016
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What Is Intuition, and How Do We Use It?

We don’t have to reject scientific logic in order to benefit from instinct.

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Francis P. Cholle
2011
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The 3 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Before Criticizing Someone

If you’re constantly castigating friends and family, you may be overlooking a truly tragic flaw.

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Martha Beck
2020
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4 Ways to Follow Your Inner Compass

Instead of asking what you should do, consider who you want to be.

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Rich Fernandez
2017
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